Triton XIV, Lot: 36. Estimate $3000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.26 g, 11h). Unsigned dies in the style of Eukleidas. Struck circa 405 BC. Head of Athena facing slightly left, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet and necklace; four dolphins and ΣV-[P]-A-K-OΣI-Ω-N around / The hero Leukaspis, holding shield and spear, advancing right; altar in background; to right, forepart of ram lying on its back left; Σ-YPAK[OΣIΩ]-N above, ΛEYKAΣΠIΣ in exergue. Boehringer, Münzprägungen pl. II. 17; SNG ANS 308 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1396 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XLVII, 1 (same obv. die); Basel -; Gulbenkian -. EF, a few light marks. Great metal. Rare.